Europe

By Dan Steinbock              The collision of an aging population, escalating climate damages, and massive remilitarization is set to present an unprecedented, compounding threat to the future well-being of Europeans. On August 27, 2026, European Commission (EC) President Ursula von der Leyen gave a speech in Paris noting that …

By Eng. Saleem Al-Batayneh Hearing is not merely sound reaching the ears — it is the ability to distinguish words and understand their meanings. The world around us has changed, and our current level of anxiety and fear no longer allows us to take a single step forward …

EU gas storage facilities are around 65% full, with no further action needed for the time being, a European Commission spokesperson said Friday. Anna-Kaisa Itkonen told reporters that the bloc’s Gas Coordination Group assessed the situation Thursday and determined that existing measures were sufficient to ensure gas supplies …

Global food prices rose in August to their highest level since late 2022 as disruptions linked to the Russia-Ukraine war put renewed pressure on grain markets and Black Sea exports, according to UN data and the Polish Economic Institute (PIE). The UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Food Price …

At first glance, a 0.1 percent drop in the EU’s total market production index and a 0.2 percent decline in the euro area for June 2026 might appear trivial—a rounding error, a statistical hiccup, something for economists to debate and policymakers to dismiss. But that would be a …

Germany’s right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won Sunday’s state election in Saxony-Anhalt with a record 43.8% of the vote but fell short of a majority to govern alone, while Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) slumped to a historic low of 17.2%, according to preliminary …

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has become the world’s largest regional association, bringing together countries whose combined population accounts for about half of the world’s population, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. “The SCO today is in fact the largest regional organization in the world, where half …

For decades, Europe’s overseas territories have been treated as quaint historical curiosities—leftovers of defunct empires, tropical islands for holidaymakers, or icy outposts for climate scientists. But in an era defined by predatory revisionism, shrinking rules-based order, and the return of great-power competition, these territories have become something far …

‘We do feel that we have support because NATO is involved, the West is involved,’ Mute Bourup Egede says Greenland’s right to determine its own future is at stake amid ongoing geopolitical tensions over the semi-autonomous Danish territory, Greenland’s Foreign Minister Mute Bourup Egede said Wednesday. “We are …